I'm notorious for abandoning new habits after a few weeks but I still try every year to have New Years Resolutions. Generally I can keep it easier if I have external culpability, so now all y'all get to know. At least in broad terms. Specifics are going under the cut but there's some health stuff (physical and mental), professional stuff, as well as creative and fannish stuff. I've also ordered a habit calendar which will hopefully be useful, I like having a visual cue but keeping track in a journal was usually to easy to forget. This I can stick on the wall.

In the wake of Tumblr making the site even more user unfriendly, I see we're all brushing dust off of our accounts here. I know I've been absent except for the annual ITPE letter. We'll see how long most of us stick around (myself included) but I'm hoping that pinning DW's tab will help. Plus it does actually look better on mobile than it did the last time I tried with any real effort.

These days I'm mostly on twitter under the same handle as here and have fallen face-first into yet another RPF fandom, this time Buzzfeed (specifically, Worth It but I'm reading in Unsolved as well). I'm also in some small(ish) book fandoms: Queen's Thief, Goblin Emperor, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Rivers of London, and I still idly poke at the Temeraire tag hoping some good Tharkay fic will fall out. I've been watching Critical Role campaign 2 but I'm notoriously bad at being up to date (currently 3 episodes behind) and not sure if I'm willing to be fic-invested in a canon where so much can change so quickly. I may start reading transcripts/listening to campaign 1, for both the fic and the closed canon but I have no idea when or if I'll find the time in the near future.

I've got an alarming number of Worth It fics on the docket these days plus an unreasonable number of podfics for them on the to-record list that's just waiting for my ITPE pods to be turned in.

Hopefully I'll get around to updating my master list some time in the next week. But if I don't, it's because ITPE has consumed my soul and all my free time and I'll try and get around to doing it some time before the end of the year.

Hello friend! My bookmarks are on ao3, if I've got something bookmarked as to-podfic please feel free (actually please do, I might get around to 10% of them) and I'll keep adding to them as I get the chance. The names of each fandom also links to the bookmarks for that fandom (or sub-fandom) for ease of access.

Peter/Beverly, Peter/Nightingale, the Bev/Peter/Nightingale vee 😍(there are a handful in the fandom that are hard no's that seem arbitrary outside of my head so if possible please stick to either existing bookmarks or authors I've bookmarked)

Hello podficcer dear! Fandoms and likes/dislikes/ships are under the cut.

Fandoms & their pairings

Marvel

MCU: Femslash! I am weak to Maria/Natasha, but I'm also not OTP-ish about them. (Lady-centric gen is also ace.) I don't watch Agents of Shield so heads up, I don't really know the characters.

Young Avengers: America Chavez/Kate Bishop

Bend It Like Beckham: Jules/Jess

Women's Hockey: all of it. Just, EVERYTHING PLEASE.

Temeraire: Laurance/Tharkay/Granby is my main pairing, but I'm not opposed to other pairings. I would love femslash or lady-centric gen. :DDD

The Eagle: Marcus/Esca

Dead Poets Society: Todd/Neil

Addams Family: Gomez/Morticia

Harry Potter: femslash and Dean/Seamus

The Losers: Cougar/Jensen

LOTR: Gimli/Legolas

Things I really like

femslash

bro!fic & gen-ish stories

Stories that are fun and/or funny and make me make goofy sappy faces when I listen

terrimazing puns

people figuring out how to communicate in a way that works for them

mundane AUs

Squicks/dislikes

incest

non-con

relationships where one party has all/most of the power over the other. (Authority figure/someone with far less authority and agency) I'm fine with the one lacking structural power still having agency and influence wrt the other person. If I can't tell that both parties went in of their own free will/bad decisions I'm out. (No student/teacher type relationships tyvm.)

After a conversation about the dearth of long-form femslash and lady-centric podfic I got to thinking; what if I set a goal for myself to only produce and consume lady-centric works for the entirety of spring. Now, I've got a couple things already in the works and, to an extent, they will be my only exceptions.

So from March 20th through June 21st I will be:

reading fic only if the main/POV character is a woman or genderqueer

this will start by being limited to canon!women characters and if I start getting desperate to the end I may expand to rule 63'd canon-male characters

canon!male characters who are genderqueer or trans women in the fic are also included

basically: no always-a-cis-girl-canon-dude fic if I can

eta: Oh! also not reading things where a canon!woman is rule 63'd into a dude. I will accept more women than canon, not less.

exploring new-to-me canons or revisiting ones I haven't touched in ages that are about women. Bonus if it's about women and created by a woman/women.

focusing on creating works that are femslash or are non-romantic and centered around a woman's story

this also includes art. I want to draw more women than I have lately. Ok, I want to DRAW more period, but specifically women.

The only exceptions I will be making are:

editing (not recording) for my extreme podfic big bang. I've got 3 hours of audio recorded for it already and another this weekend, any more can wait to July.

Title:Who The Fuck Wants To Die Alone?Author:paperclipbitchReader:Rating: PG-13/Teen & UpFandom: Young AvengersPairing/Characters: Kate Bishop/America ChavezWarnings: NoneLength: 00:49:34Summary: Normal!AU. “I don’t know why I have to get involved in this anyway,” Clint huffs. “Or haven’t you told this chick that you’re working a job you don’t need and live in a magical Disney palace?”Download: right click and save as mp3 here without music and here with music

Author:giselleslashReader:Rating: PG-13/Teen & UpFandom: MerlinPairing/Characters: Merlin/ArthurWarnings: NoneLength: 00:31:35Summary: Author's Summary: Written for this prompt at the KMM: dog tags/'come back to me'Download: right click and save as mp3 here

Title:All Our ExploringAuthor:[Bad username or unknown identity: doyle_sb4”> <br /><strong>Reader:</strong> <user name=]doyle_sb4Reader: lattice_framesRating: PG-13Fandom: Buffy the Vampire SlayerPairing/Characters: Spike/Xander Harris, IllyriaWarnings: noneLength: 0:30:11Summary: "We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time."- T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding.

This was recorded as a part of the Audiofic Archivist Appreciation Meme for general_jinjur and a HUGE THANK YOU to knight_tracer who was amazing and edited when I couldn't manage to get enough time at home free to do so myself. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Also, thank you to doyle_sb4 for having blanket permission.

This is probably going to be my last post until after graduation (beyond occasional personal bitching).

So, I know I'm pretty damn hit-and-miss when it comes to updating this. I'm okay with it mostly being podfic updates. This is a far cry from that.

I'm in my second to last quarter of my undergrad and I really, really need to focus on that more than I have been. Especially with my rowing season starting back up in a week. So, in short I'm going to be going on a hiatus until graduation in mid-June. Pretty much minimal reading, no fannish productivity (outside of a closet cosplay or two for ECCC) until I graduate. I'll still be on Twitter and it's been a good thing that tumblr is refusing to load things properly for me so I can just step away from there. But for the next few months I'll be cheerleading on twitter and book marking everything that comes across my path, and only that.

I've already been under a bit of a moratorium on recording, but I need to make this statement so I hold myself to it and so I don't go and find challenges/fests/things to do when I should be spending that time on homework and studying.

So this is something I was babbling at vassalady about over on tumblr that looks like it may just be written as an actual story. (It has a gdoc and everything!)

I have discovered more things I want! Lady!Gimli and Eowyn being fuck buddies at Edoras/after the battle of Helm's Deep. :DDDD Neither of them really *emotionally* invested in the sex, just the release and camaraderie of being women on the battlefield finding comfort in each other because the comfort they want most isn't there. So frantic, bittersweet sex in closets and in hidden corners when they can steal away at the same time. Usually they won't even get undressed, just make sure they've got enough access for hands. They kiss to keep their moans muffled and not draw attention to themselves should anyone pass by Though they both cherish the times when they're able to take an hour or more away from the rest, to take their time and get into things. Gimli shows Eowyn that her tongue is good for more than just kissing and for the next few days Eowyn feels as though she's riding on a cloud. They re-unite once more, briefly when they meet again in Minas Tirith before they go their separate ways, Gimli having worked things out with her (ridiculous, situation-blind) Elf and Eowyn having found Faramir. They both remember those times together fondly though, remain in contact through the years until the end of their days. Bemoaning the ridiculous nature of Men and Elves of the male persuasion.